hound

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /haʊnd/

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• Rhymes: -aʊnd

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz (confer West Frisian hûn, Dutch hond, Luxembourgish Hond, German Hund, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian hund), from pre-Germanic *ḱuntós (compare Latvian sùnt-ene (“big dog”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ (“dog”) (compare Welsh cwn (“dogs”), Tocharian AB ku, Lithuanian šuõ, Portuguese cão, Armenian շուն (šun)).

A basset hound.

NounEdit

hound (plural hounds)

1. A dog, particularly a breed with a good sense of smell developed for hunting other animals.
2. Any canine animal.
3. (by extension) Someone who seeks something.
   • 1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, →ISBN, page 93,

     On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately.

   • 2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 483,

     I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna.

4. (by extension) A male who constantly seeks the company of desirable women.
   • 1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108,

     "Are you alone, Goodson? […] I thought, perhaps, that the […] young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?" […]

     "She had a good many successors, John."

     "You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied."

5. A despicable person.
   • Shakespeare

     Boy! false hound!

   • Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me

     'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale.

6. A houndfish.

Usage notesEdit

• In more recent times, hound has been replaced by Modern English dog but the sense remains the same.

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from hound

• Afghan hound
• autograph hound
• bloodhound
• boar hound
• clean as a hound's tooth
• draghound
• gazehound
• greyhound, grayhound

• hell hound
• hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• hound dog
• houndish
• houndlike
• houndly
• hounds of war

• houndstooth
• houndy
• publicity hound
• rock hound
• sighthound
• war hound
• wolfhound

TranslationsEdit

dog

• Afrikaans: hond (af)
• Armenian: բարակ (hy) (barak)

  Middle Armenian: զաղառ (załaṙ)

• Bulgarian: хрътка (bg) f (xrâtka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獵犬 (zh), 猎犬 (zh) (lièquǎn)

• Czech: chrt (cs) m
• Danish: hund (da) c
• Dutch: jachthond (nl) m
• Esperanto: hundo (eo)
• Estonian: hagijas (et)
• Faroese: hundur (fo)
• Finnish: ajokoira (fi)
• French: chien de chasse (fr) m, braque (fr) m, molosse (fr), chien courant (fr) m
• Galician: can de caza (gl) m
• Georgian: ძაღლი (ka) (ʒaɣli), მონადირე ძაღლი (monadire ʒaɣli), ქოფაკი (kopaḳi)
• German: Jagdhund (de) m
• Greek: κυνηγόσκυλο (el) n (kynigóskylo), λαγωνικό (el) n (lagonikó)
• Hungarian: vadászkutya (hu)
• Icelandic: hundur (is)
• Ido: chasohundo (io)

• Irish: cú (ga) m

  Old Irish: cú m

• Italian: bracco (it) m
• Japanese: 猟犬 (りょうけん, ryōken), 狩犬 (かりいぬ, kariinu)
• Macedonian: ’рт m ('rt), загар m (zágar)
• Malay:

  Jawi: انجيڠ ڤمبورو‎‎

  Rumi: anjing pemburu

• Maori: kurī whakangau
• Norwegian: hund (no) c
• Polish: gończy m, ogar (pl) m
• Portuguese: cão de caça m
• Primitive Irish: ᚉᚒᚅᚐ m (cuna)
• Russian: го́нчая (ru) f (gónčaja) (соба́ка), охо́тничья соба́ка f (oxótničʹja sobáka)
• Slovak: chrt (sk) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} perro de caza m, ^{(please verify)} sabueso m
• Swedish: hund (sv) c
• Tagalog: asong pangaso
• Turkmen: tazy
• West Frisian: hûn (fy)
• Yiddish: הונט‎‎ (yi) m (hunt)

one who seeks something

• Finnish: metsästäjä (fi)
• Galician: cazador m

• Portuguese: caçador (pt) m
• Russian: ищейка (ru) f (iščejka)

male who constantly seeks the company of receptive females

• Finnish: pukki (fi)
• Galician: mullereiro (gl)
• German: Schürzenjäger (de) m

• Portuguese: mulherengo (pt) m
• Russian: кобель (ru) m (kobelʹ)

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English hounden, from the noun (see above).

VerbEdit

hound (third-person singular simple present hounds, present participle hounding, simple past and past participle hounded)

1. (transitive) To persistently harass.

   He hounded me for weeks, but I was simply unable to pay back his loan.

TranslationsEdit

to hound

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} измъчвам (bg) (izmǎčvam), ^{(please verify)} тормозя (bg) (tormozja)
• Finnish: vainota
• German: belästigen (de)

• Norwegian: hundse
• Russian: пресле́довать (ru) (preslédovatʹ), трави́ть (ru) (travítʹ)

Etymology 3Edit

From Middle English hownde, hount, houn, probably from Old Norse húnn, from Proto-Germanic *hūnaz.

NounEdit

hound (plural hounds)

1. (nautical, in the plural) Projections at the masthead, serving as a support for the trestletrees and top to rest on.
2. A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.

AnagramsEdit

• Duhon, Hudon, no duh